Overview
- The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by Brooke Lynn Dorgan and Justin Jude LeBlanc in Montgomery County Circuit Court and names U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen as defendants.
- Plaintiffs ask the court to find Tuberville failed the state constitution’s requirement that a governor be an Alabama resident for seven years before the election and to bar his name from the November ballot.
- The complaint cites voter-registration and vote-by-mail records in Walton County, Florida, a Santa Rosa Beach beachfront property, a 2019 statement in which Tuberville said he was not an “everyday resident,” and timing of deed transfers and homestead filings as evidence of Florida residency.
- The Alabama GOP’s June 14 steering-committee ruling that Tuberville met residency requirements relied on redacted tax and property records, and an earlier Covington County challenge was dismissed; the new Montgomery County case shifts the dispute to a judge who can order discovery and compel more records.
- If the suit proceeds to trial the court could make previously private documents public, reshape the November race against Democrat Doug Jones, and clarify how Alabama’s quo warranto procedures and residency test are applied to candidates.